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AlexanderPorter (1757-1833) was born December 14, 1757 CLICK for LARGE VIEW in or near Hebron, Connecticut.  In 1775 and 1776, 18-year-old Alexander Porter served short enlistments in the Connecticut Militia.  In May of 1777, Porter enlisted for three years in Captain Henry Champion's Company of Colonel Samuel Willis' Regiment of the Connecticut Line.

After the Revolution, Porter resided in New York.  He died at the age of 76 on April 28, 1833, in Freedom, New York, and there he was originally interred.  In August 1924, his remains were moved to the Fort Winnebago Soldiers Lot Cemetery, Section 33, Town of Fort Winnebago, Columbia County.  The cemetery is location of County EE, off of Highway 33 East, near the Surgeons Quarters.  He is buried next to his Compatriot Cooper Pixley.

GPS coordinates -- N43.55689°; W089.42728°

(Portions reprinted from Solders of the American Revolution Buried in Wisconsin by Robert G. Carroon, who was Curator of Research Collections for the Milwaukee Country Historical Society in 1975.)

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by the Wisconsin Society of the Sons of the American Revolution.
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